Mistrusts sometimes come over one’s mind of the justice of God. But let a real misery come again, and to whom do we fly? To whom do we instinctively and immediately look up?
BENJAMIN HAYDONFortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
More Benjamin Haydon Quotes
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Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.
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Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!
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The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
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Do your duty, and don’t swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.
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Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
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Invention is totally independent of the will.
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Newton’s health, and confusion to mathematics.
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Beware of the beginnings of vice. Do not delude yourself with the belief that it can be argued against in the presence of the exciting cause. Nothing but actual flight can save you.
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The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
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One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.
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Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.
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